New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-15

High License is growing continually, and they
NAV conclude from this that men who have any
ambition to stay in public life must be very
careful how they put themselves on record IN
relation to the drink evil.
The wheelmen of Brooklyn are at last getting
what they are entitled to- All the drives have beeh
opened to them except the most used part OF the
East Drive and the narrow winding ROADS through
the woods After April l riding on the walks win
BICYCLES or trcycles is not to be permitted lhsls
rs it should be- The bicycle and the tricycle. are
vehicles and the drives the right place for Them
Still. it would be well to allow ladies unaccom-
panied BY male escorts TO use the walks-or Some
parts of them-except on Saturday afternoons sun
DAVIS and holidays, when the park is likely 10 be
tbronged with people on foot In the winter, TOO.
when few persons walk in the park. wheelmen Will
doubtless be permitted to usc the walks as hereto
fore. Otherwise riding would be almost Impossible
in the cold season.
Naturally if Mr.. Cleveland declines TO run again
and finds he can dictate the Democratic ticket Tor
ISIS his choice Will be
FOR PRESIDENT.
JAMES MATTHEW'S. OF New-YorX.
FOR VIcF.pRHsTpENr.
JAMES II. TROTTER, OF Massachusetts,.
PLATFORM Rcsolrei That local self-government
must so.
To a friend who directed his attention to foolish
criticism upon his poetry Robert Browning Is said
70 have replied: 81 havo had too long an eXpc-
ricnce Of tho inability of tho human goose to no
other than cacke when benevolent and hiss when
malicious, and no amount Of goose criticism shall
make me lift a heel against what waddles behind
IT," There may be differences II opinion IN regard
70 Mr.. Browning's merit as a poet but If he can do
bn - a qrt 90
will have 10 be generally admitted that he is
vigorous and picturesque polcmic. Geese who
wonld avoid being cooked would do well to eschew
Browning
Tho ladies connected with one o. the churches Of
Long Island announce an entertainments consist
ing of an intellectual feast and a supper of more
material sort You parta'lc OF thc intellectual
feast for ten cents, but the supper will cost You
thirfy-fyc The philosopher who affirmed that
mind always iriumphs over matter has the floor.
When the British Postmas'or-General concluded
his new contract for carrying tho transatlantic
mails he not only asserted that II would insure
four mails week 10 Nrw-lork but, he edded {:
The departure Of tho White star steamers on
"Wednesday from Liverpool rnsures tho arrival OF
the letters at Ncw-York on Friday Of the following
week. in time for reply by he Saturday mail from
sail under the new contract. She arrived at her
ricr late on Friday and her mails could not be de-
liycred until after the outgoing had sailed
on Saturday The Umbria, of the Cunard Line,
bringing the regular British mails leaving Queens
town the Sunday before arrived yesterday as did
also the North German Lloyd steamship Ems. with
such letters as were Especially addressed. leaving
London on Thursday, March 3. Hence. the replies
10 the letters by either of these three steamers
could not be sent before to-day.
The irrepressible Brick PJmeroy is just now
deyoting large share of his energies to the task
of getting out the tmbers Of David b. Hills Presi-
dental boom. Brick Gays that Hill lis not afraid
TO trust the Democratic party Yes, but can the
Democratic party return the compliment!
If three or four divekcepcrs, instead Of being let
of with n comparatively small inc after being
convicted Of violating tho law. were sent over to
the Island for six months OF year, the dive-keep-
ing business in It's present mpudent shape at least
would be pretty effectively broken up. Those
people don't care for fine. II makes no difference
TO them whether the money they put out takes
the shape Of n fine. of blackmail. But term IN
the penitentiary Is fate for which they entertain
"A healthy dread.
bill for the relief Of the liquor dealers who got
licenses from Morris and faughton last summer
has been prepared This Is n measure evidently in
the interest of justice. Those men acted honestly
and ought not to lose tho money which they paid
out or be prosecuted for violating the Excise law.
Senator Brown. of Georgia. who is so we'll salts
fed with tho history of his lifo as ploughboy,
Governor and Senator that he wrote and published
n book about it, has overlooked one important
point in his career. lie has failed to tell anything
about the horrors Of the convict lease system under
which many c0nvcts have died while at work in
his mires and on his railroads. If Mr. Brown could
secure the abolition Of this brutal system OF en-
ploying convicts III tho South he would do some
thing for which he would be praised without the
need of writing about it himself.
The Erening Fost is safe so long 1t quotes THE
TRBrNEs exact language any subject OF the day. But
when IL follows up It's citations with Its own summaries
az our views It becomes vacant-mnded partisan as
nm American correspondent OF u London jOurnal-and
that is saying much. 1t appears from
one OF these summaries that THE TRB-
TINE has been wantonly attacking Commander
Chandler and has not apolozod to him Let us hasten
10 reassro our quarrelsomo contemporary. We shall
analogue TO Commander Chandler when find, first,
that there is such officer, and secondly, that have
wronced him But even with tho aid OF naval list we
arc unable TO find proofs Of Commander Chambers
identity and We forced to conclude with sairey
CAMPS bosom friend "that there amt such person.
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PERSONAL.